She took the post down, but the backlash was intense, and not just on Facebook and Twitter.

Senior government politicians including Peter Dutton, Barnaby Joyce, Tony Abbott publicly condemned her.
Calls were made to sack her from the Council for Australian-Arab Relations and for Abdel-Magied to deport herself from the country she had lived in since she was 18 months old.

Abdel-Magied, a trained mechanical engineer who had been crafting a career as a public advocate with appearances on Q&A since 2013, was suddenly unemployed.

She withdrew from public life for several months, and remained quiet on social media.

Yassmin Abdel-Magied speaking at the National Library, Canberra, in June says ‘deeply racist’ attacks have been made against her. Picture Kym Smith.

The ABC cut her role as a presenter on Australia Wide in May and companies cancelled lucrative speaking engagements.

"Before Anzac Day I was knocking back corporate gigs left, right and centre," she told GW, "but now the only ones that are coming in are from overseas."

After working for Shell, she had hoped to be posted to the company's new energy division in London.

But following the re-release of her 2016 memoir Yassmin's Story and a request for leave to pursue ABC filming commitments, the job was no longer available.

In June, Abdel-Magied announced on Facebook that she was moving to London anyway, and that she had been traumatised by "deeply racist" criticism of her.

"Being deemed the face of all that is evil for extended period of time does take its toll," she posted.

"However, reality is that being a small target has not served me well at all. Choosing not to defend myself and 'let it blow over' backfired," she wrote in another post.

"Because it hasn't blown over. Staying silent left a vacuum that other voices gleefully filled with hate and vitriol that was deeply racist."

Abdel-Magied's departure for London in September won't mean she will be silent in the future about the last six months in Australia.

She told Fairfax that she may be writing another book, and although she had felt "very isolated, frightened and ... hounded" she was feeling strong about the future, and would return home.

She also revealed that despite the fact she would probably end up marrying a Muslim man, she loves "the Australian male. The more neck tattoos, the more utes ... the more I am into it".